suffuse

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SUFFU'SE, verb transitive suffi'ze. [Latin suffusus, suffundo; sub and fundo, to pour.] To overspread, as with a fluid or tincture; as eyes suffused with tears; cheeks suffused with blushes. When purple light shall next suffuse the skies.
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